Overview
- Space Systems Command issued the multiple-award contracts Tuesday, setting a $1.843 billion ceiling through 2036.
- Fourteen companies won places on the vehicle, ranging from Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to Anduril, Astranis, True Anomaly, and Turion Space.
- The IDIQ structure lets the service place task orders with any awardee without rerunning a full competition, which can cut months from delivery.
- Only $1.4 million in fiscal 2025 research, development, test, and evaluation funds were obligated at award, with future task orders to fund actual builds.
- The program targets space domain awareness—tracking, identifying, and characterizing objects in orbit—as a crowded sky drives demand, and the competition drew 32 offers.